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Modern American Memoirs (Paperback, 1st HarperPerennial ed): Annie Dillard Modern American Memoirs (Paperback, 1st HarperPerennial ed)
Annie Dillard
R523 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R86 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Modern American Memoirs, two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, including contributions by such diverse writers as Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Chosen for their value as excellent examples of the art of biography as well as for their superb writing, the excerpts present a broad range of American life, and offer vivid insight into the real-life events that shaped their authors. Here, readers can learn about the time when Harry Crews, playing as a boy, fell into a vat of boiling water with a dead hog; Chris Offutt joined the circus and watched a tattooed woman swallow a fluorescent light; and Frank Conroy practiced yo-yo tricks.

The Maytrees (Paperback): Annie Dillard The Maytrees (Paperback)
Annie Dillard
R465 R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.

In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.

In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. She presents nature's vastness and nearness. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Dillard's original body of work.

Teaching a Stone to Talk - Expeditions and Encounters (Paperback): Annie Dillard Teaching a Stone to Talk - Expeditions and Encounters (Paperback)
Annie Dillard
R429 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R80 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

Pilgrim At Tinker Creek - [Deckle-edged] (Paperback): Annie Dillard Pilgrim At Tinker Creek - [Deckle-edged] (Paperback)
Annie Dillard 2
R497 R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Save R124 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."

Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.

Teaching a Stone to Talk - Expeditions and Encounters (Paperback, Main - Canons Edition): Annie Dillard Teaching a Stone to Talk - Expeditions and Encounters (Paperback, Main - Canons Edition)
Annie Dillard 1
R307 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R62 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel, Dillard captures the grand and miniature miracles of our universe. Annie Dillard is one of the most respected and influential figures in contemporary non-fiction and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. With Teaching a Stone to Talk, she illuminates the world around us with a new and glowing light.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback, UK ed.): Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback, UK ed.)
Annie Dillard
R406 R368 Discovery Miles 3 680 Save R38 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek has continued to change people's lives for over thirty years. A passionate and poetic reflection on the mystery of creation with its beauty on the one hand and cruelty on the other, it has become a modern American literary classic in the tradition of Thoreau. Living in solitude in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Roanoke, Virginia, and observing the changing seasons, the flora and fauna, the author reflects on the nature of creation and of the God who set it in motion. Whether the images are cruel or lovely, the language is memorably beautiful and poetic, and insistently celebratory. Just pay attention, Dillard urges throughout, and you will find yourself 'sailing headlong and breathless under the gale force of the spirit'.

The Living (Paperback, 1st HarperPerennial ed): Annie Dillard The Living (Paperback, 1st HarperPerennial ed)
Annie Dillard
R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.

Holy the Firm (Paperback): Annie Dillard Holy the Firm (Paperback)
Annie Dillard
R369 R297 Discovery Miles 2 970 Save R72 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire.

This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well.

Mornings Like This (Hardcover, 1st HarperPerennial ed): Annie Dillard Mornings Like This (Hardcover, 1st HarperPerennial ed)
Annie Dillard
R401 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R56 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old--and often odd--books, and composes ironic poems--some serious, some light--on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new.

The Abundance (Paperback, Main - Canons Edition): Annie Dillard The Abundance (Paperback, Main - Canons Edition)
Annie Dillard; Introduction by Geoff Dyer
R312 R274 Discovery Miles 2 740 Save R38 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking flight, Dillard's awe at the fragility of the natural world rejuvenates and inspires pleasure and heartache. Precise in language and deeply meditative in spirit, this is a landmark collection from one of America's masters.

An American Childhood (Paperback, 1st Perennial library ed): Annie Dillard An American Childhood (Paperback, 1st Perennial library ed)
Annie Dillard
R469 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.

The Abundance - Narrative Essays Old and New (Paperback): Annie Dillard The Abundance - Narrative Essays Old and New (Paperback)
Annie Dillard
R529 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R130 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In Fact - The Best of Creative Nonfiction (Paperback): Lee Gutkind In Fact - The Best of Creative Nonfiction (Paperback)
Lee Gutkind; Introduction by Annie Dillard
R524 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R85 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished in this new turf, all originally published in the groundbreaking journal he founded, Creative Nonfiction, now in its tenth anniversary year.

Many of the writers here are crossing genres from poetry to fiction to nonfiction. Annie Dillard provides the introduction, while Gutkind discusses the creative and ethical parameters of this new genre. The selections themselves are broad and fascinating. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman reacts passionately to the unjust murder of Emmett Till. Charles Simic contemplates raucous gatherings at his Uncle Boris's apartment, while John McPhee creates a rare, personal, album quilt of his own life. Terry Tempest Williams speaks on the decline of the prairie dog, and Madison Smartt Bell invades Haiti. "

The Writing Life (Paperback): Annie Dillard The Writing Life (Paperback)
Annie Dillard
R400 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R77 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Annie Dillard Reader (Paperback, 1st HarperPerennial ed): Annie Dillard The Annie Dillard Reader (Paperback, 1st HarperPerennial ed)
Annie Dillard
R476 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210 Save R55 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Annie Dillard -- "one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today" (Boston Globe) -- collects her favorite selections from her own writings in this compact volume. A perfect introduction to one of America's most acclaimed and bestselling authors.

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